Xbox Live is getting shutdown for the Orginal Xbox on April 15,2010

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/02/05/xbox-live-being-discontinued-for-original-xbox-consoles-and-games.aspx

Well, that sucks. I was planning on rebuying a xbox in the future. I won't be playing it through live it looks like then. You can use LAN tunneling applications to play Xbox games with LAN modes online still. Those games with LAN are basically online forever through this method. 2 programs that I know of to do this are Xlink Kai and Xbox Connect.

Here is more on the subject :

LINK.

No more Online 360 Xbox Original games, no more Halo 2 Online, and no more Xbox 1 Online play after APRIL 15, 2010.

This sucks for me, I have 2 XBOX's (Halo). Is this how LIVE is going to work in the future? Something to think about for sure...I have spent over $700+ over the years on Xbox for my two Xbox consoles.:(

I guess play your Halo 2 Online guys, it's going, going....gone. I still play Splinter Cell, Steel Battalion, Halo 2, Crimson Skies, and Phantom Dust all for XBOX as well from time to time...

Think about this, one of THE GREATEST ONLINE CONSOLE GAMES EVER!, Halo 2, will no longer be online on Xbox's around the world.:(

I guess there is a disadvantage to a closed network.:(

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Microsoft has announced it will "discontinue" Xbox Live for the original Xbox and its games on April 15, including Xbox Originals and Xbox games playable on Xbox 360. Xbox Live launched in North America on November 15, 2002--the first anniversary of the Xbox's launch--requiring a $50 'Xbox Live Starter Kit' which packed a one-year subscription, a headset and demos for Whacked! and MotoGP

While the Xbox was not the first console to support online play, Xbox Live certainly revolutionised it. At launch it packed a unified 'gamertag' user account with friends lists, matchmaking, voice communication and downloadable content. Xbox Live Arcade brought downloadable games and demos in November 2004, then run from a disc.

"As we look down the road, we'll continue to evolve the service with features and experiences that harness the full power of Xbox 360," said Xbox Live general manager Marc Whitten. "To reach our aspiration, we need to make changes to the service that are incompatible with our original Xbox v1 games."

Backwards-compatibility is reportedly why friend lists are limited to 100 people, while the same source says the enduring popularity of Bungie's shooter Halo 2 was a large motivating factor behind Microsoft's decision not to discontinue Xbox Live sooner.

"'Halo 2' has had an amazing run on LIVE, with a dedicated community more than five years after launch and well into the next generation of consoles," says Whitten's letter.

Whitten ends on a chipper note, promising "We'll share more details soon, but in the meantime I want to assure you that the best is yet to come for Xbox LIVE."

I had bought an Xbox for the first time last year and was finally thinking about getting live but guess not now.TheColbert

Think about this, one of THE GREATEST ONLINE CONSOLE GAMES EVER!, Halo 2, will no longer be online on Xbox's around the world.:(SolidTy

While I am sure I am in the vast minority;

Xbox was always a LAN party console for me, and still is.

if it effects gamespy games then its pointless to play games online on ps2

if it effects gamespy games then its pointless to play games online on ps2

bigM10231

[QUOTE="bigM10231"]

if it effects gamespy games then its pointless to play games online on ps2

LoserMike

Ah man, I still want to play Halo 2 online.

I'm not too surprised. It had to happen eventually.

[QUOTE="LoserMike"][QUOTE="bigM10231"]

if it effects gamespy games then its pointless to play games online on ps2

cornerback3

I am surprised they still kept it around after discontinuing the production of the system 2 months after 360 came out. They never had that many originals on the 360 anyway. There was only like 29 games.

Microsoft's game division practices do blow more than anyone else's. Not that the other companies have not made mistakes but MS makes you pay so much and you can't get reliable hardware or bet on them supporting older software for people who don't want to jump to the next generation just yet.

I just find it funny that people complain about MS rather frequently but they still continue to pay for systems to be repaired and for other things that should not be charged. Yeah I know I sound like a fanboy but as far asreliability and support goes,Microsoft is not the way to go.

This pretty much proves my statement that Online gaming and Classic Gaming are incompatible. Once the servers are gone, there is no way to play that game further in the future as it was intended. You can experience the single player campaign of Halo years from now as in the first day, but the online is gone for good, not to mention the community as well which would have moved on. SciFiCat

Guess that means I need to get DSL and Live so I can get any and all updates for the games in my current collection...muthsera666

[QUOTE="muthsera666"]Guess that means I need to get DSL and Live so I can get any and all updates for the games in my current collection...AngstOverlord

Makes you see that there might have been a method to sony's madness on leaving it up to the developers to control the functionality of their games.

Microsofts business methods bug me, the fact from day one you couldn't have live on a original on 360. They should have in my opinion made live on the original xbox free, or at least promoted to develope a patch to play their game online still through a similar p2p lobby system like you would find on a ps2 game

[QUOTE="AngstOverlord"][QUOTE="muthsera666"]Guess that means I need to get DSL and Live so I can get any and all updates for the games in my current collection...muthsera666

Bugs me as well, wanted to grab it while I could only to realise its gone...

QUOTE="muthsera666"][QUOTE="AngstOverlord"]Most if not all of the DLC has already been pulled.Krazyskitzy

a that sucks. i still love the xbox

if it effects gamespy games then its pointless to play games online on ps2

bigM10231